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Detailed Description

TeX Live uses uses its own classification of TeX packages which can be automated and used by packaging systems in various distributions. The packaging metadata that upstream provides allows to distinguish doc, source and runtime files which could then be packaged separately.

The package contains repo file for yum which contains TeX Live 2010 with binaries from the TeX Live development tree. After installing the release package do:

yum install texlive

if you don't have texlive already installed. While upgrading from older
texlive release please remove all the texlive packages before the
upgrade, especially be sure that the /usr/share/texmf directory is
removed.

This will install the basic TeX Live scheme. You can alternatively install any of these schemes:

Note that it is in testing state so bugs could occur. There are
possible clashes with applications packaged separately (such as
dvipdfmx, etc.) so we may want to discuss these conflicts with
respective fedora package maintainers to fix them. In case you are a
maintainer of such package please send me an email to me
so that we can sort it out on the TeX Live side. Generally the TeX
Live packages are preferred so I will grant access to them to maintainers
that owned the non-TeX Live package variant packaged separately.

User Experience

Users could use exactly the part of TeX they need without wasting disc space.

Dependencies

need mass review for all packages before this feature is completed - DONE

import of all of the ~1600 packages need to be finished

all of the packages need to be built

Contingency Plan

Stay stuck with TeX Live 2007.

Documentation

Release Notes

TeX Live 2010 is now introduced with improved packaging scheme that saves download bandwidth and disc size. It is based on upstream packaging metadata and an automated license audit is performed. Packages are now composed from schemes and collections to define a package set user needs to install to use a particular TeX Live feature.